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Issue: #44
Published: May 1941, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Ed Cronin
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 2.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	The Doll Man
Credits:	Pencils: Gill Fox ? \| Inks: Gill Fox ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Doll Man [Darrel Dane] Spin Shaw (inset) Lala Palooza (inset) Samar (inset) Zero (inset) Poison Ivy (inset) Dusty Dane (inset) Rance Keane (inset) Reynolds Of The Mounted (inset) Bruce Blackburn (inset) Big Top (inset) Mickey Finn (inset)

Comic Story (9 pages)	Trouble on the Twentieth Century Limited
Featuring:	The Doll Man
Synopsis:	Darrel and Dr. Roberts speed after a train, attempting to catch up with a foreign spy who has stolen a valuable formula for making poison gas. Doll Man catches up to him only to lose the agent afterwards, but the crafty crime fighter sets a trap to catch all those involved.
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner ? \| Pencils: Reed Crandall \| Inks: Reed Crandall
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Doll Man [Darrel Dane] Dr. Roberts Schultz (villain, Introduction) Spies [Heinrich Others Unnamed] (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Big Top
Credits:	Pencils: John Devlin \| Inks: John Devlin
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Mystery Schooner
Featuring:	Rance Keane
Credits:	Script: William A. Smith \| Pencils: William A. Smith (Will Arthur) \| Inks: William A. Smith
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Rance Keane Harvey Topping Nazi Spies (first Appearance Villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Don't Fear the Reaper
Featuring:	Zero, Ghost Detective
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum \| Pencils: Al Bryant \| Inks: Al Bryant
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Zero Un-named Old Man (introduction, Death) Old Man's Son (introduction) The Reaper [Death] (villain, Introduction)

Comic Story (5 pages)	King of the Barrens
Featuring:	Reynolds of the Mounted
Credits:	Pencils: Art Pinajian \| Inks: Art Pinajian
Genre:	Western-frontier
Characters:	Sgt. Jim Reynolds, RCMP Red Deer (first Appearance) Rawson (first Appearance Villain) Canua (first Appearance

Comic Story (2 pages)	Magic Chalk
Featuring:	Homer Doodle and Son
Credits:	Script: Arthur Beeman \| Pencils: Arthur Beeman \| Inks: Arthur Beeman
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Obandi War Dance
Featuring:	Samar
Credits:	Pencils: Reed Crandall \| Inks: Reed Crandall
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Samar The Obandi Tribe (first Appearance) Julie (first Appearance) Julie's Father (first Appearance) Several Bad Guys (first Appearance Villains)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Featuring:	Lala Palooza
Credits:	Pencils: John Devlin \| Inks: John Devlin
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Lala Palooza

Comic Story (5 pages)	Fear, Inc.
Featuring:	Capt. Bruce Blackburn, Counterspy
Credits:	Script: Harry Campbell \| Pencils: Harry Campbell \| Inks: Harry Campbell
Genre:	Adventure Spy
Characters:	Capt. Bruce Blackburn Mrs. Blake (first Appearance) Herr Silber And His Gang (first Appearnce Villains Death)

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Draftsman's Treason
Featuring:	USA, the Spirit of Old Glory
Synopsis:	A corrupt government draftsman attempts to steal the plans of U.S. defenses, but USA throws a monkey wrench into that plan.
Credits:	Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth (signed) \| Inks: Maurice Gutwirth (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	USA Unnamed U.S. Secretary Of War (introduction) Linden (villain, Government Draftsman, Introduction) Unger (villain, Introduction) Unnamed Spies (villains, Introduction For All)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Underwater Counterfeiters
Featuring:	Rusty Ryan
Credits:	Script: Paul Gustavson \| Pencils: Paul Gustavson \| Inks: Paul Gustavson \| Letters: Paul Gustavson
Genre:	Adventure Children Spy
Characters:	Rusty Ryan Rickie (villain, Introduction) Rickie's Gang (villains, Introduction For All)

Text Story (2 pages)	Water for the King
Featuring:	Perry Scott
Credits:	Script: Robert Hyatt \| Pencils: ? (illustrations) \| Inks: ? (illustrations) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Perry Scott

Comic Story (2 pages)	The Super Conscientious Objector
Featuring:	Poison Ivy
Credits:	Script: Gill Fox \| Pencils: Gill Fox \| Inks: Gill Fox
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Poison Ivy A Super Guy (first Appearance)

Comic Story (4 pages)	The Map of Sinbad
Featuring:	Dusty Dane
Credits:	Script: Vernon Henkel \| Pencils: Vernon Henkel \| Inks: Vernon Henkel
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Dusty Dane Bulldog Teeters (first Appearance Villain Death)

Comic Story (4 pages)
Featuring:	Mickey Finn
Credits:	Script: Lank Leonard \| Pencils: Lank Leonard \| Inks: Lank Leonard
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Mutineers
Featuring:	Spin Shaw
Credits:	Pencils: Witmer Williams \| Inks: Witmer Williams
Genre:	Aviation
Characters:	Spin Shaw [Capt. S. R. "Spin" Shaw]

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